We Are Sorry - AGAIN

Eastern Health Official Concerned About Medication Mix up! This falls in the wake of Musgravetown resident Nancy Mojica-Fisher, a United Church minister, who was given a treatment last Thursday that had been intended for a cancer patient sitting next to her in a treatment room at G.B. Cross Memorial Hospital in Clarenville.

This story has room to require more than an apology! The public has become scared, so much so that tuning into radio news, turning on the TV set, or reading the paper gives most of us the woollies.

This year has disclosed a long and diverse list of Health Authority medical mistakes, that has caused an abundance of pain and even sorrow for those affected. Not just, but most of these stories are out of Eastern Health. It's difficult to digest the reality of these mistakes, and how much negative impact they will have on patients in the long term.

The breast cancer inquiry and its findings alone, gave us enough insight to at least attempt to forge ahead and believe or not believe in the promises by our government, to fix the mistakes being made across the board!

I believe I can say however, it will be a long day coming when health care is delivered without mistakes being made, and especially ones that cause pain and suffering.

I'd like to believe that our province and it's agencies will not be able to abuse the "Apology" theory just introduced to our system.

I will be watching in earnest I am sure, but I dare say that things will get much worse before they start to get better. There seems to be a new approach in disclosure of even crucial mistakes made by Eastern Health, this past few weeks, the authority has beat the victim to the media. I am a little lost at understanding the flip flop, and even more concerned with the new catch phrase, "Eastern Health Apologises", so on, so forth.

Brudder